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Subject: Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's The

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:56:21 08/21/02

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On August 21, 2002 at 14:54:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 21, 2002 at 04:18:33, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On August 20, 2002 at 22:02:15, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>I wrote the thing using Interleaf 4.0...  By the time I thought about it,
>>>Interleaf was far beyond 4.0 and there was no way to read in the old files
>>>and convert them.  I wish I had saved it as ASCII or something, but hindsight
>>>is 100% of course...
>>
>>There are several other packages out there that will read Interleaf 4.0
>>files, including but not limited to:
>>
>>ApplixWare Office Suite (also for Linux)
>>Corel WordPerfect 8 (also for Linux)
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>I never tried ApplixWare, but wordperfect wouldn't touch the files
>I had.  Might have been because I used their math equation stuff and a lot
>of graphics generated internally by interleaf.  We even found an Interleaf to
>something-else program that would crash with those files.
>
>The best bet would be to scan the thing in and run it thru an OCR package.
>The drawback is the time it would take, and then getting the graphics in would
>be another issue.


I should add that _anyone_ can buy a copy of it from University Microfilm.

I bought several dissertations from them including a copy of Berliner's 1970
Dissertation on his program "Patsoc"...



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